Ig Nobel awards

The 19th annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will be held tonight at Harvard University (there's a live webcast beginning at 7:13). The prizes are given by the organization Improbable Research, whose stated goal is to "make people laugh, then make them think. We also hope to spur people's curiosity, and to raise the question: How do you decide what's important and what's not, and what's real and what's not — in science and everywhere else?"